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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Business Notices,

THREE comets have been discovered
within few. days, and as no one can tell
what will happen we want all who have
unsettled accounts with this Office to attend
to the same.
USE e. f. Dodge's weather strips. Leave
orders at Gleason & Co.'S furniture store.
ATTENTION is directed to the new adver-
tisement which appears on the eighth page
of this paper under the heading Desirable
Farms to Let"
HAHNEMANN's HOMEOPATHIC PELLETS are
not drastic purgatives; they do not act in
that way. They are slow in their action,
but permanent in effect.
BARGAINS IN ORGANs.-Two organs, only
used short time and good as new, will be
sold at large sacrifice for cash. Write for
description and prices to j. f. Waterman,
Montpelier, VT
For SALE-A very fine house, nearly new,
situated in Montpelier in a good location.
Also some to rent. Those wishing to pur-
chase or rent please call on Stephen
Thomas, agent.
If your eyes blur or cause dizziness
Neill, the optician, can give you immediate
relief Scientific corrections for all condi-
tions Of sight. Perfect results guaranteed.
Neill, optician, State street.
THE figures for numbering houses not
numbered can be had at Barrows & Peck's,
GA Main street. The book containing all
names and vacant lots is also there. Figures
can now be bought of them at reduced rates.
II. S. BoARDMAN, MD, successor to DR..
Brigham, Office at Hotel Kempton, OPP
poste post-oflce. Residence at the Sidney
Redfeld house, State street. Office hours,
eight to nine A. NJ, one to two and seven to
eight p. NJ. Telephone at office and resi-
dence.
PARTIES desiring a safe investment are
invited to examine the seven per cent
mortgages sold and guaranteed by the
Farmers Trust Company. All papers in
connection with these loans are carefully
drawn and the security offered is such as
the most conservative investors demand
For full description, inquire of George w
Wing or Clark King, Montpelier, or f. A
Dwinell, Plainfeld, vt.
GEORGE A. AINswoRTH, Wiliamstown
and Barre, dealer in pianos, organs and
sewing-machines. Barre headquarters Per-
ley Chandler's jewery store. He sells the
White " sewing-machine, which has had
gold medal voted it as the most popular
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02

machine in st. Paul, MINI. The White
company also received the highest award
at the twenty-seventh annual state fair for
"finest display of household art decorations"
RUSH p. BARRETT, Esq, managing part
ner of Barrett Brothers, the eminent cleo
tricians of New York city, says, in a recent
letter to E. A. Markham: "Will you kindly
send me two boxes of your Carbolized Ont-
ment2 More than three years ago I used
some which my father, Judge Barrett, had,
and have never found anything equal to it
for healing wounds" j. V. Babcock sells
it in Montpelier, or, if your dealer does not
have it, f. A. Markham, Bethel, VT, will
send it to any address upon receipt of the
price, which is twenty-five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Lake Champlain Fish.

The New York SUMS Washington cor
respondent says: The New England peo-
pie have already begun a movement, the
object of which is to get as strict construc-
tion of our tariff laws as the Canadians have
given TO the treaty of 1918. For some time
the Canadian fishermen in the upper por-
tions of Lake Champlain have been catching
fish, and are now doing it., and entering
them at the custOm-house as fresh fish, duty
free, for immediate consumption. These
fish have been shipped to Boston and New
York from Lake Champlain ports, and have
paid no duty. The treasury department
has never made ruling as to the exact
meaning of fresh fish for immediate con-
sumption under our tariff act. Hiram At
kins has asked the treasury department to
make such a ruling. He has raised the
point at the department that fish caught by
Canadians in the waters of Lake Cham
plain cannot be entered and shipped to New
York or Boston for immediate consumption,
and go into the general market there, and
that Tor Immediate consumption means TO
be consumed at once and not sent TO mar
ket to find purchaser. If the treasury de-
partment shall sustain the point made by
Mr.. Atkins the Canadians will be deprived
of their only market for Lake Champlain
fish, as their only other market now il Mon
treal, which is supplied in other ways
The treasury department now has it in its
power to retaliate by regulation, as the
Canadians have retaliated by rigid enforce
ment OF the treaty of 1878.
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Overdue Subscriptions.

Will every subscriber be so kind as to
examine the date on his paper affixed to his
name? If he is not credited to date, or to
the close of the year, he is in arrears. There
appear no substantial reasons why all over
due subscriptions should not be paid within
the next thirty days, since the amounts
owing from the greater number of SUBJ
scribers are severaly small
We still offer the family scales, with the
WArCHMAN one year, for So.
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As advertised elsewhere in this paper, we
will continue for the present our offer of a
copy of this meritorous work of art to every
subscriber who sends us fifty-eght cents in
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Addison County.
Granville.


MRS CARRIE PAGE having resigned the
Office of superintendent, the Sunday-school
has reorganized with Leonard Bean as SUI
perintendent. - George Vnton from
the West has been visiting here, == A. b.
Childs has been visiting friends in New
York state. A little son of Arthur
Ford on West Hill is dangerously i'll with
diphtheria. A council of doctors was called
Sunday in his case
Hancock.
THE town overseer of the poor from
Sharon was here Friday to see Annie Dut-
ton, charge on that town, who had her
feet badly frozen while crossing the noun
tain, very thinly clad, two weeks ago 1t is
thought the toes of one foot will be ampu-
tated but they hope to save her feet. -
Jessie Wright of Rochester visited here re-
Gently. - Rev. j. o. Sherburn attends
quarterly meeting here February 18th.
- l.. ID. Rhodes was at Woodstock last
CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGR,l
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02

The new volumes of The Century and 81.
Nicholas begin with the November num-
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and Vide .i1oake with the December num-
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tage Hearth (S1,50), and this paper $780,
making $3.50, will be furnished together for
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This applies on our part to all subscribers of
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have taken the Weekly Tribune the past
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The above offer will be good for only thirty
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02

The Vermont examining surgeons say
that more than one-half of the applicants
for pensions examined by them are suffer-
ing from heart disease.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

THE original cause of the great Cali.
fornia gold fever-the first fever germ
Is at the National Museum at Washing.
ton. II Is securely sealed In little
glass bottle. and there Is no longer any
danger Of contagion. u Is little fat
lened piece OF gold about the size Of q
gold dollar II Is the piece found by
Marshall while digging mill.raee tho
gear before the fsver set Ia. II was
ssnt direct 10 tho Smithsonian insti,
1pts IN August isSs
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

THE Pittsburgh Manufacturer de-
scribes novel craft nearly finished
there, which is designed for the rapid
transfer of coal from boats or barges
to the holds of vessels. 1t can handle
10000 bushels per day, and will be
taken to New Orleans for use there. Its
draft will only be two feet and it costs
about $4,000.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

MRS. EDWARD HUMPHREYEs. Of
Bergen Point. N. j.. great grand
daughter of Benjamin Franklin, driv-
ing at Southampton, L. l.. the other
day. saw young girl drowning in a
neighboring pond. There was no one
20 help. so the little woman did il her.
self. though she nearly tainted after
the terrific efforts of the rescue.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

DIR. MARVIN GREEN, president of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, and Chauncey NJ Depew, presi-
dent Of the New York Central railroad.
draw $4,000 year. The best-paid
minister in New York Is DIR. John Hall.
who breaches to $500. 600. 600 every
Sunday. His salary is $40. 600. and he
writes e5, 600 more.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

THE Globe Iron Shipbuilding Com
pany of Cleveland has concluded con-
tract to build six steel steamships for
the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railroad Company, each vessel to cost
100000. They viii form a line be-
tween Duluth and Buffalo.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

GENERAL SHERID AN said the other
day to New York reporter that he
considered the Indian a very uncertain
quantity, but denied that he ever made
use of the remark, SO often attributed
to him, that 1.-The only good Indian is a
dead Indian
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

A. PHILADELPHIA publisher says:
"The revised Bible has fallen Hat.
Hundreds of thousands of copies re-
main on the shelves, and the people
will not have them at any price. They
stick to the Bible of their fathers and
Mothers
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

The railroad telegraphers will seek
to have passed at the coming ses-
sion of Congress a bill making it q
penal offense for any railroad company
TO employ telegraph operator to di-
rect the movements of passenger t,ains
who has not been granted a Govern
ment license.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

STATISTICS show that the Grand
Army of the Republic was never more
closely united, and that the growth
during 1886 was rs. 600 members. Re-
ports for the first quarter of the pres
ent year indicate even greater growth.
The order now has q membership of
$50 600.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

NEW YoRK's assessment rolls show
the assessed value of real and personal
estate for the present year to be ST.
507. $780, 63, an increase of $50, 672, 377
over the assessment of 1886.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

y w. X. VANDERBILT has leased Lord
Lovatt's country seat in England for
two months at $4,000 month. This
is only little episode in the catching
trim around the world.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

THE lawsuit in Hin ois that has pri-
GRITTY in age has just passed its forty
second birthday. 1t began about II
81 hog, and has cost the principals
$1,000. Pork will rise if you give it
f,nn
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

AT WaldecS, German prlncipality,
decree has been issued that no il.
eenss To marry will hereafter he
granted any individual who is addicted
To drunkennessi or having been so. hs
must exhibit full proof that Le 4 no
longer u slave 10 this vice
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

THE Empress of Japan will visit this
country in October. 1t will be the
first time that a reigning lady of that
land has visited the outside world.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

THE whole length of mail routes in
operation in the United States amounts
to S75, 900 miles.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

A RUSSIAN Pacific railroad is con-
templated, and five years are necessary
TO build the line. When finished the
world can be traversed in tifty-three
DAYS.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

SEVERAL Philadelphians died recent
ly of lead poisoning from eating buns
colored with chrome yellow.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

IT Is estimated that 500. 600, 600
will enter into new buildings in the
United States this year.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND more sbad
were taken from the Hudson river, be-
tween Albany and Peekskill, this year
than at any other season.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

The Governors of Idaho and Nevada
are brothers.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-08-26

COOPER, Publisher.
, 1887-12-27

Disabuse yourself especially of the be-
lief hat any grace or flow of style can
come from writing rapidly. Haste can
make you slipshod, but it can never
make you graceful. l can hardly think
that there is any autograph in the world
so precious or instructive as that scrap of
paper, still preserved at Ferrara, on
which Ariosto wrote in sixteen different
revisions one of his most famous tanZas.
And then Balzac; do you know how he
used to compose? The story is too long
for repetition here, but his own words
give some idea of his great patience and
%carefulness: Il work ten hours out of
the twcnty-four over the elaboration of
my unhappy style, and l am never salts
fed myself when all is DONE"
''Spare no wealth that you can put in,
and tolerate no superfluity that can be
struck out" Remember the Lace
dTmoniau who was fined for saying that
in three words which might as well have
been expressed in two. Do not throw
n dozen vague epithets at n thing in the
hope that some one of them will fit, but
study each phrase so carefully that the
most ingenious critic cannot alter it with
out spoi!ing the whole passage for every
body but himself. Domestic Monthly.
, 1887-12-27

Tennyson is now in his 18th year, his
locks are thinning fast and there are
fewer dark ones Thar there were wen
three years ago, but his wonderfully
noble eye has not lost its luster. Most
likely he shifts a clay pipe into his left
hand that he may grip you with his
right. This pipe is his calumet of peace,
his secret charm for abstraction, his in
cense to the gods. AT morn, at noon, at
night, alone or accompanied, the pipe is
his half way house between meals and
the sure precursor of n nights repose.
The Tennysonian costume is seen at its
best in here and does not seem SC much
an affectation. He thaws but slowly, even
in his own room, but the magic of a
third pipeful sets wagging that masculine
tongue and neither jawbone, and if the
topic stirs him he will pour forth fine
rolling periods in the sturdy old English
accents which modern superfine cockney
schooling is polishing out of existence.
AS the conversation warns his puffs
come fast and thick and the sound of the
pipes wakes more and more warlike. Not
the bagpipes nor the pipes of Pan, but
the "Church wardens," as we call the
long clays, for Tennyson has q lordly
whim never to smoke the same pipe
twice. When the charge is exhausted he
breaks the shank, drops it into n cistern-
like vase and fills q clean one from the
box supplied by his wholesale dealer
st. Louis Republican.
, 1887-12-27

Mr.. Lincoln was by nature singularly
merciful. The ease with which he could
be reached by persons who might profit
by his clemency gave rise to many not
able scenes in the White House during
the war. Upwards of twenty deserters
wero sentenced at one time to be shot.
The warrants for their execution were
sent to Mr.. Lincoln for his approval. He
refused to sign them. The commanding
general to whose corps the condemned
men belonged was indignant. He hur-
ried to Washington. Mr.. Lincoln had
listened to moving petitions for mercy
from humane persons who, like himself,
were shocked at the idea of the cold
blooded execution of more than a score of
misguided men. His resolution was fixed,
but his rule was to see every man who
had business with him.
The irate commander was admitted
into Mr.. Lincoln's private office. With
soldierly~ bluntness he told the president
that mercy to the few was cruelty to the
many; that executive clemency in such
a case would be a blow to military dis
cipline, and that unless the condemned
men were made examples of the army
itself would be in danger. General, -
said Mr.. Lincoln, "there are too many
weeping widows in the United States
now. For Gods sake, don't ask me to
add to the number, for, 1 tell you plainly,
1 won't do it'll"
He believed that kind words were bet
ter for the poor fellows Than cold lead,
and the sequel showed that he was right.
Ward ii. Lamon.
, 1887-12-27

The Partisan matchmaker, Schwob, has
brought out n new chronographic watch
(montrc observatory which is a marked
improvement on the ordinary stop watch.
TIL face is furnished with a second small
dial, similar in size to the seconds dial.
by touching n knob the hands of this
dial, which is n complete copy of the
large one, arc at once replaced TO 10
o'clock, and then continue their progress
from that point.
This method is very practical, ms it not
only shows the time of commencing al
observation, but infallibly determines its
duration without the least trouble, all the
observer having to do for this latter pur-
pose being simply to read the time indi-
Gated by the small dial, n to subtract
that time from the true hour of the large
dial. This can all be done without exer-
cising any memory or making any note.
We think the invention invaluable for
making astronomical or other observa-
tons. The eye need not be even turned
TO the watch in touching the knob, which
can be done in perfect darkness. A sleeper
is suddenly awakening from n nightmare,
or hearing n strange noise Mt night, and
wishing to fix the time of the occurrence,
need only press the knob of his watch and
turn his head quietly round on his pillow,
knowing that in the morning he will have
the exact hour and minute correctly
Observation-Disclosures and Jeweler.
, 1887-12-27

All feeling, every act of the will, every
time the eye or al or any other sense is
exercised and all the operations of all the
organs of the body-every movement of
a limb, every word that is spoken, is due
to the action of the brain. 1t therefore
stands in the place of n machine, but in
stead of deriving its force from foreign
material used as fuel it its own
substance, which during sleep is replaced
by new matter left there by the blood,
which has taken it from the food alb
sorbed into the system.
Tho person who works his brain day
and night his brain substance
at n greater rate than it is formed, his ex-
penditures are greater than his receipts,
his income is not sufficient, but his CAPT
tai is encroached upon. With every
action of which the brain is capable an
increased amount of blood flows into the
organ, and if it is kept inordinately at
work the blood vessels become perma-
nently distended, they lose their elasticity.
They are like an India rubber band that
is placed around a large bundle of papers
and left there for several months. When
the papers are removed the band does not
contract to its original Dimensions Will
lam A. Hammond in New York Mail and
ENnreSs.
, 1887-12-27

Orders from manufacturers and drug
gists have gone out in greater quantity
than ever this year for ''pure spruce
gum" The Maine forests is where the
best gum is procured, and the lumber
men can reap quite n little harvest if
they can manage to get gum enough to
fill these very liberal offers. Gum
chewing has become sc fashionable that
there is an unusual demand for it and it
is one that promises to last. Reasons for
this are that gum chewers believe that
the chewing of the gum aids digestion and
also whitens the teeth. The first reason
sets elderly gentlemen to chewing it, and
the latter makes the practice popular
with women. One firm has made n for
tune by making n candied chewing gum,
which is sold by druggists, tobacconists,
confectionists and at elevated railroads.
The chewing gum habit has got away
beyond the school girl, and there's no
telling where it will stop at its present
rate of progress.-Chicago Herald.
, 1887-12-27
Thrco Book FIendS.

The tall copy man, the uncut copy
man and the wide margin man are about
the most cranky of the bibliomaniacs.
What they want nobody else would have.
They are n trio of cranks of about the
same class. Every time n book is pub
lished, the publisher prints a few copies
which are longer than the regular edi-
ton. These the tall copy fiends seek.
They like to stand Il long book on n shelf
alongside the regular sized book and
gluat over the fact that they have n diff
ferent kind of book from the common
buyer. If n tall book of some rare edi-
ton falls into their hands, they go into
ccstacies of joy and benz all efforts to
get n copy of the regular edition TO stand
alongside this book Of bastard size.
His brother in hobby, the wide margin
man, is contemplated by the book pub
Usher. who prints n half dozen books of
an edition with abnormal margins to n
page, and sells them for five times the
regular price of the book. II the books
marketed by n publisher are already cut,
rs the American publishers are accus-
toned to do, he saves a few copies with
the leaves uncut and sells them TO the
uncut copy man. This n is the worst
crank of all. To him n book is only
valuable as long as the leaves remain I'M
cut in the folio. He does not buy n book
to read. The standard authors lei
nothing TO him. If he can get n copy of
n first edition of Scott or Dickens, which
no one has ever read, because the leaves
nave never been cut, he values it higher
than all the books these novelists ever
wrote. His idea of a book is n in
which the pages shall be sealed from the
be-Democrat.